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  • Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees due process and equal protection rights to all citizens?
    14th Amendment
  • In what year did Rosa Parks refuse to leave her seat to a white man in the bus?
    1955
  • Who was Martin Luther King Jr. was married to?
    Coretta Scott
  • What is the name of the state where the bus boycott started?
    Alabama
  • The National Civil Rights Museum/Lorraine Motel is in what state?
    Tennessee
  • Who was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court?
    Thurgood Marshall
  • Who was the president of the USA when the civil rights act of 1964 was decided upon?
    Lyndon B Johnson
  • He marched with MLK in Selma and served on Georgia's House of Representatives for 30+ years.
    John Lewis
  • Martin Luther King was admitted to what HBCU at the age of 15?
    Morehouse College
  • Whose writings and practices inspired MLK. and the nonviolent movement?
    Mohandas Gandhi